# Let's fork GRIN!

**URL:** <https://forum.grin.mw/t/lets-fork-grin/9277>\
**Category:** Research\
**Created:** [October 17, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/lets-fork-grin/9277 "2021-10-17T02:49:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anynomous](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/anynomous/32/2928_2.png) [@Anynomous](https://forum.grin.mw/u/Anynomous)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/lets-fork-grin/9277/39 "2021-10-19T07:16:56Z")

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> [@grn](#):
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> Regarding pointless discussions: an issue that I see with the way the project is set up, is that there is no project manager. Contributors have to discuss every little detail with the entire community, which is more emotionally taxing than just having to report to a single entity (who then talks to the community), like in a regular job. Some developers are more outgoing and don’t mind, but many are more introverted. I can imagine this turns the type of developer away that only wants to deal with the tech and not so much with people. This is an unnecessary loss.

True, this is a downside of having such a nice decentralized governance, it is a price I think worthy of paying.

> [@grn](#):
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> In my opinion the question should not be, “How can we approach as many developers as possible on twitter?” or “How can we get the community to behave better?”, but “How can we make working on Grin more attractive for different types of people?”.

We do no need to make the community more well behaved, but we should stand up and speak up for each-other, and also we should not spend to much time reiterating the same answers.  
For example, we already answered @Markozzz and @gringott.one quite elaborately.  
Although we understand where they are comming from, in the end this post summarizes it quite well:

> [@levus](#):
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> i can trarnslate this post:  
> hey guys! Lets fork GRIN because he cant grow.
> 
> devs, please, can u make rate emission low?  
> i bought since 2019 and i cant wait anymore.  
> we need pump!
> 
> please, help!

The complain is mostly that the current supply does not favor innitial investors, which is true and a known fact from day 1. Should we change the design of grin for that, no, of-course we should not.  
Other valid points are mentioned though. Yes we should make working on Grin attractive, e.g. by having our developers back instead of burning them in public. And yes we should make implementing Grin on an exchange easy by providing template example code.

I think we are all in favor of listing Grin on more exhanges, but not paid, the exchange has to be willing themselves to list Grin. Did Bitcoin ever pay for listing?.., neither should Grin.  
Basically most complains historically are asking to interfere with the price to favor a few, not the many. Again, if you get more involved you see there are many good things for Grin on the horizon such as [hardware wallet support](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-ledger-hardware-wallet-progress-thread-by-markhollis/8670), [CoinSwap](https://forum.grin.mw/t/request-for-funding-scilio-coinswap-implementation/9149) which could greatly enhance privacy at basically no cost whatsoever, just to name a few.

My opinion (no financial advice) to those who did not read the whitepaper and overpaid in the early days of Grin, buy more, slowly scale in and on the long run your investment is more likely to become profitable. And again, get involved yourself, learn more about Grin and help shape the feature of Grin. Joining the discussions on this forum is a great first step for that, thanks for actively contributing here and voicing your opinions.

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